HP has become the latest vendor to offer a modular data center solution, promising a way to reduce upfront capital cost and carbon footprint.

 

It says the HP Flexible Data Center offers a standardized approach to designing and building data centers using a “butterfly” design with four prefab modules that stem off a central administrative section. 

 

The offering uses industrial components to improve cost efficiencies and a streamlined building process.

 

Bob Cashner, senior vice president, Corporate Properties, Wells Fargo, said the solution offered a means of helping business “meet computing demands efficiently while addressing capital-intensive data center costs.”

 

HP will also offer consulting and design services to help clients evaluate their needs build out their data centers.

 

It says the prefab, standardized components will to shorten the time it takes to deploy a data center. The modular design “extends clients’ ability to increase scalable capacity while retaining specified levels of reliability and redundancy,” it said.

 

The HP systems are air-cooled rather than water-cooled, saving clients power and water costs.